5/26/2023 0 Comments The bone sparrow by zana fraillon![]() And one day, the Great Sea brings him a new friend. And the guards? Well, with the exception of Harvey, they are not very nice people. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And these tokens mean a great deal to Subhi because the camp isn't a very nice place. ![]() Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained in tokens that wash up from the Great Sea of his imagination. They left Subhi's father behind and are waiting for him to join them. He is Rohingya and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting him. He has lived his whole life in a detention centre for refugees in Australia. Shortlisted for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Medal It's about the plight of refugees but also about the importance of friendship and the vital benefits of storytelling. ![]() Summary: Deeply moving book told from the point of view of a boy in one of Australia's notorious detention camps. ![]()
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